If you are so inclined by Indian spicy foods, you might try cooking Prawn Balchao. Enjoy the spice!

Ingredients

500 grams peeled, de-veined fresh prawns

2 tbsp dried prawns, roasted and powdered

5 big onions, finely chopped

1 cup vinegar

2 1/2 cups oil

200 grams sugar

A few curry leaves

Salt to taste

For the paste

20 Kashmiri chillies without stems

2-inch piece of ginger

20 garlic cloves

2 tbsp mustard seeds

2 tbsp cumin seeds

2 tsp black pepper

Steps

1

Pat dry the cleaned prawns and soak it in one cup of vinegar for half an hour. Heat the oil in a pan on medium heat.

2

Fry the curry leaves,onions and spice paste until it is well cooked. Add the rest of the ingredients (all the ingredients given in the Ingredients list ) and the fresh prawns with vinegar. (But make sure that you've kept it for half an hour)

3

Lower the flame and stir cook till the oil comes to the surface. (May be for a further 5 to 7 minutes )

4

Add salt to the taste. Serve it with hot bread or as a pickle and enjoy.